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castings machined and put in the pulleys for control cables and then install the castings in the plane. The brackets had to be drilled properly and then installed with pulleys. Cables had to be measured, strung, cut and the ends swaged on. There were also motor and flight control levers to be installed in the cockpit. All operations were supervised by an engineer.

All this work was interesting but it was very slow going and there were many times when there was nothing to do but wait on a decision from an engineer so I began to think of doing something else. Finally in the summer of 1944 I informed my Draft Board that I was ready to go into the Military and if I was not needed there, I intended to return to teaching. They replied immediately and told me that I was needed worse in education than in the military and they urged me to return to teaching. I had taken some management courses at UCLA so I went to that campus and located the head of teacher placement, a Dr. Aubery Berry. I told him that I wanted to get as far from Los Angeles as I could but that I had only enough gasoline to go about one hundred miles. The following Saturday I interviewed Frank Bishop, Superintendent of schools from Corona in Riverside County. They needed a coach and physical education teacher and I took the job.